Cheese-cabinet.



no. 660,538. Patented oct. 23, |900.`

c. c. Bowu. v CHEESE CABINET;

(Appxm medrb 15 1900) (No lodal.)

Khe-5.5615* UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES CALVIN BROWN, OF LElVISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECTAND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF TWO-THIRDS TO W. F. HOFFA AND S. AH.HIMMELREICH, OF SAME PLACE.

CH Ease-CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.A 660,538, dated October23, 1900.

Application led February 15, 1900. `Sera1No.5,363. (No modelli' To allwhom, it may concern: Y vided at its upper end with any shape or Be itknown that I, CHARLES CALVIN design of handle 6, and it may be eithersolid, BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residand therefore opaque,or, like the remaining ing at Lewisburg, in the county of Union andwalls, it may be of glass.

5 State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain The opposite lower stiles7 of the two side 55 new and useful Improvements lin Cheesewalls of thecabinet are provided with par- Cabinets; and I do hereby declare thefolallel grooves 8, and mounted for `movement lowing to be a full,clear, and exact descripin said grooves is a shelf 9, the same beingtion of the invention, such as will enable 0thcapable of withdrawal fromthe grooves, as

1o ers skilled in the art to which it appertains to hereinafterexplained. Supported centrally 6o make and use the same. upon the shelf9, upon an axis or supporting- 'lhis invention relates to improvementsin post 10, is a rotatablecircular platform ll, cabinets for cheeses.upon which may be supported a cheese or a 'Ihe objects of theinventionare to produce fraction thereohthe platform being capable a cheap,simple, and convenient as well as of'being revolved or rotated, so as topresent 65 ornamental cabinet either for domestic use any portion of thecheese to the rear oropen or for use in retail stores for containingsideof the cabinet. Inverted-L-shaped hooks cheeses and preserving thesame against the 12 are located at and rise from pointshnear deleteriousaction of the atmosphere and the the opposite outer corners of the shelfand zo encroachment of vermin, Vthe said cabinet extend inwardlyinahorizontal manner from 7o being so constructed as when opened to autheupper corners of theswi'nging door. The tomatically present the cheese"contained hooks of the door have their upper bent eX- therein forconvenient cutting, and therefore tremiiies outwardly and oppositelydisposed without the cabinet, and, furthermore, to to those of theshelf, which latter are inautomatically upon a closing of the cabinetwardly disposed, as shown. 75 reinsert the cheese within the same. y 13designates a pair of rigid connecting- A further object of the inventionis to prorods, the lower ends of which are perforated vide for a readydisengagement and removal and preferably pivotally and removably conofthe several parts one from the other to pernected with the L-shapedhooks of the shelf 3o mit of a thorough cleansing of the cabinet. andthe upperends of which rods may be like- 8o Referring to the drawings,Figure l is a wise connected to the L-shaped hooks of the perspectiveview of a cheese -cabinet condoor, but are preferably provided withelonstructed in accordance with the invention, gated slots le, providedat their out-er ends in the same being shown as open, the cheese betheirupper sides with notches l5, which are ing indicated in dotted lines.Fig. 2 is a vernormally in engagement with the said hooks. 85 ticaltransverse sectional view of the same, r[he under side of the shelf mayhave applied the cheese being removed and the cabinet thereto anordinary castel' or roller 16, which closed. contacts with the bottom ofthe cabinet and Like numerals of reference indicate like which also isdesigned to ride over the door 4o parts in both figures of the drawings.when the latter is in its lowered position and 9o l designates anordinary cabinet, the same the shelf withdrawn from out the cabinet.beingl in this instance rectangular, but which rlhe cheese, as indicatedby dotted lines in may be of any desired shape and design. Fig. l, restsupon the revolving platform, Three of the sides of said cabinet may beprowhich latter may be moved to any point to vided with light-panels 2,formed of glass, permit of access being had to any portion of g5 and thefourth side is closed by a door 3, the cheese. By lowering the doorthrough which is hinged at its lower edge to the base the medium of thehandle it will be apparent or bottom 4, whereby it is adapted to openthat the connecting-rods will serve to draw downwardly, the said doormoving or swingthe shelf and platform containing the cheese 5o ing onthe hinges 5. The door may be profrom out the cabinet, and by closing.the door 10o the shelf and platform will be moved inward within thecabinet, and therefore the cheese protected, as heretofore explained. Ifit be desired at any time to clean the cabinet, it will be obvious thatthe connecting-rods may be readily disengaged from the. fronthooks orthose of the door and the shelf removed; whereby access to the shelf andplatform and the interior of the cabinet maybe readily had. While theshelf simply by lowering the door emerges ordinarily sufficiently far togive access lo the cheese, yet in many instanceS;-ow' ing to surroundingobstructions or the position of the cabinet,it is desirable that theshelf, and its platform be still farther withdrawn' from the cabinet. ItI'is for this reason and to accomplish this purpose that the upper endsof the connecting-rods are preferablyv slotted, for, as will be obvious,in order to effect a further withdrawal lheouter ends ofv theconnecting-rods are simply raised, so as to disengage their notches withthe inverted- L-shaped hooks, whereupon the shelf may be slid fartherout, the caster serving' to support the frontend of the shelf when thelatter is in this position.

l. The combination with a cabinet having opposite ways and atA one sidea downwardlyopening door hinged to the bottom of the cabinet and adaptedto lowerinto the same plane as and form a continuation of the bottomthereof; of connecting rods loosely connected to the door near'its upperfree end; and a shelf mounted in the ways and loosely connected at itsinner end to the free ends of said rods.

2. The combination with a cabinet having opposite'ways in its side Wallsand a door hinged, at its lower edge, to the bottom of the cabinet; of ashelf mounted in the ways; hooks ontlj'e'shelfE and near the free edge0f the door; and connecting-rods between the hooks, the outer ends ofthe connecting-rods being provided with slots, vthe upper sides of whichare forinedwith notches located near the outer ends' of the slotsandadapted to normally engage the. hooks ofthe door.

31 'lhe combination with the cabinet having opposite Ways and adownwardly-opening door hinged to and in the same plane with the bottomof the cabinet; ofa sliding shelf carri'edv bythe ways, a caster on theLinder side of the shel'fadapted tov move o-ver the bottom andthe door,hooks projeetingfrom the shelf and the door; and slotted connecting-rodsprovided' with' notches near their free ends, andloosely connected tothehooks of the shelf and door. I l

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

CHARLES CALVIN BROWN.

Vitnesses:

O, W. BROWN, H. N'. PARTH.

